Chapter 40
He is also isolated from the outside world, which is a good place for the money-stricken mistress. In particular, Mi Zhu mastered the technology of building sand ships with stable fins, which was guided by Li Su. He has been doing a good job in keeping confidentiality for the past year. Regarding the stability of sea-traveling, the Mi family dares to say that he is the second in the Han Dynasty, but no one dares to say that he is the first.
With these conditions, what a great gift would it be if Liaodong could serve as the Mi family to maintain the rear of the industry?
On the other hand, Mi Zhu is at least considered an official who is about Qianshi.
Although he never shyly obtained the official "donate money and donated money to do things for the court", and his qualifications were short and his promotion was too fast.
However, before Emperor Ling died, this protective color was very useful. Because Liu Bei and Li Su had always been known as "not taking money for palace repairs", it was easy for people to think that Mi Zhu and Liu Bei were just buying and selling cooperative relationships, rather than private effect.
Since ancient times, the word "representation" is ruthless, the actors are unrighteous, and they are not traitorous. Who would believe that a businessman who seeks profit will have feelings for business partners?
If Liu Bei wants to recommend the people in charge of Liaodong in the future, the biggest excuse is that "the Liaodong rebels face the current situation of being robbed by the rebels after the initial decision", so a "large government with strong intervention cannot be governed by inaction, but must plan economic farming."
Who is the most suitable to manage the government with a strong planned economy? Of course, it is the most suitable for big businessmen who pay money to be an official and have business experience! At that time, Mi Zhu will be a big state-owned enterprise and a big investor who saves the people in Liaodong. With the idea of Emperor Ling selling official positions, he will definitely think this is very suitable. (It was the few months after Dong Zhuo came to power, he purged the incompetent and talented eunuch party buyers and made room to please Qingliu. This period is the most dangerous time)
As for those great scholars who were innocent and had no choice but to govern inaction, they were completely unsuitable for such planned economic management periods.
Thinking of this, Mi Zhu did not hesitate anymore, immediately upright, knelt down seriously, and thanked Liu Bei: "Zhu has already known the concerns of the Lord of the House. The Lord of the House is willing to consult with each other with such a heartfelt matter. Zhu Ming feels the feelings of trust.
Since this is the case, Zhu is willing to promise three things so that the Lord of the House will rest assured and there will be no doubts: First, if the Lord of the House is really transferred by the court and can trust the Liaodong affairs, Zhu is willing to spend most of his family's resources to give 20 million... No, it is 30 million yuan to help the army!
Secondly, Zhu's eldest son Wei is only eight years old this year, and Zhu also has another son who is only three years old, so it is not convenient to travel far. He is willing to follow the emperor of the mansion and ask Mr. Boya to teach him well.
Third, Zhu has a young girl, who is fourteen years old this year and can be given a broom. If you want to avoid suspicion from the court, you cannot marry a bride with a formal courtesy and send it to the mansion secretly. It is okay to use maids and concubines to secretly favor it. The aforementioned money to help the army should also be given secretly, which is regarded as a gift for the son to be a disciple of Mr. Boya, and the makeup and coffin of the sister who serves the mansion."
Mi Zhu's posture in this life seemed to be lower than in his previous life.
There is no way, who made Liu Bei's original status even higher in this life? His Liaodong prefect also made it himself, which was equivalent to climbing to the power of one-third of the provincial governor.
As a person who has made contributions to Liu Bei, Mi Zhu had to pay more money and marry his sister to a more humble manner. What Liu Bei had to guard against was to let outsiders see that he and Mi Zhu were in a marriage, so Mi Zhen could not even have the title of concubine for the time being, so as not to let outsiders see the PY transactions here.
I guess if I really have to take this step and take the spare chess, at least after the Shao Emperor was killed by Dong Zhuo, Mi Zhu also raised the banner of begging Dong and pretended to shout, and then he could slowly reveal the fact that his sister was a concubine for Liu Bei.
As for money, the Mi Zhu family could not afford 300 million yuan in cash. According to the original history, the total assets of the Mi family were estimated to be only 300 million to 400 million yuan, and many of them were fixed assets. But in this life, Mi Zhu did not take advantage of Liu Bei in advance, and did so many horse-trading businesses in the process of fighting Liaodong, and also dealing with the rebels' plundering of stolen goods, so he quickly snowballed to exceed 500 million yuan in property.
Only after earning an extra 100 million or 200 million, Mi Zhu dared to say that he would give 300 million yuan to help the army when he gave most of his family property. For the long-term gain of a base that he had a firm decision and won the highest friendship of such a promising hero as Liu Bei, Mi Zhu felt that even 300 million yuan was worth it.
Of course, the premise is still the same: this spare tire plan to deal with the worst-case situation will be the day when you have to use it.
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After discussing with Mi Zhu, Liu Bei could have thought that a stone fell to the ground.
Before leaving, Liu Bei also took care of him: If the imperial court really appoints Mi Zhu to take charge of Liaodong work, how much should he pay for the specific official position? Mi Zhu will take care of himself.
Of course Mi Zhu had no objection to this point, and said that it was all right, even if it was doubled, as long as you could go through the path and get appointed, it would be fine.
Half a month later, Liu Bei inspected the people's conditions in various parts of Liaodong, checked for omissions and rested.
During this period, he also moved his muscles and bones slightly to rectify the surrounding Dongyi. However, he found that the Dongyi tribes were very good and had nothing to beat at all, so Liu Bei gave in with just one sentence.
Take Goguryeo as an example. After Liu Bei had a deep understanding, he realized that Goguryeo now has only more than 30,000 households and a population of more than 100,000.
Moreover, there are only more than 10,000 farmers, and they are concentrated in a small valley plain at the mouth of Sancha River on the north bank of the Yalu River, which is also the capital of Goguryeo and the only city "domestic city".
In addition to the more than 10,000 farmers and citizens in the domestic city, the remaining 150,000 Goguryeo population is all fishing and hunting, distributed south of the Xiaoliao River, around the Yalu River and Changbai Mountain. Because the climate is cold, even the fields cannot be planted.
In other words, as long as Liu Bei followed Xi'anping County in Liaodong County (Dandong in later generations, at the mouth of the Yalu River), climbed the Yalu River and ended the domestic city, then there would be no regime in Goguryeo, and there were only tens of thousands of savage hunters running all over the Changbai Mountains.
You can't fight this kind of savage regime, so Liu Bei just easily "beheaded more than a thousand heads of the captives". The Goguryeo people completely recognized the Han Dynasty's rule and vomited out all the benefits of the previous chaotic era.
I guess I will still fight Silla, which is a little south. Baekje can at least grab some fertile fields that can be farmed. But in fact, Baekje doesn’t dare to grab them with the Han people at all. As long as the Han people farm from Lelang County to the south, Baekje people will give up these open spaces and find another place.
In history, Gongsun Kang built a Daofang County south of Lelang in 204, the year when Yuan Tan was attacked and killed by Cao Cao. His territory was equivalent to the farming area between the Datong River and the Han River in later generations, that is, from Kaicheng to Seoul. Baekje and Silla did not make any farts at all. Now Liu Bei has formed a powerful force in the Northeast in advance. If he wants to do what Gongsun Kang does fifteen years in advance, no one can resist.
At worst, the authority of the court was still there, and Liu Bei did not dare to establish the title of Fang County, but just continued to reclaim the land in the name of Lelang County.
After more than half a month of farming, Li Su finally came back from Liu Yu, Ji County.
If he reported to Liu Yu for his life, he would actually take nearly ten days to travel back and forth. The reason why he spent more time was that Liu Yu advised him to wait for the first time to reward the court, so Li Su and Liu Yu's envoys traveled 500 miles a day to travel between Luoyang for eight days.
The court was very careful and got Zhang Chun's head. After confirming the pacification of Liaodong, it immediately fulfilled the reward that he had already thought of, officially appointed Liu Bei as the prefect of Liaodong, and changed his guardian Wuhuan to the general of Liao.
Li Su was still the chief minister of Liaodong, but he protected the Wuhuan Captain and took over the position that Liu Bei had made.
By this point, Liu Bei finally became the general of two thousand stones, and Li Su was also the captain of two thousand stones.
In terms of titles, Liu Bei was appointed as the Marquis of Xiangping Township, and Li Su was appointed as the Marquis of Changliting.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are the Marquis of Duting.
In addition, when Liu Yu was particularly communicating to the court, he mentioned that Mi Zhu paid out his own pocket to sea fleet to transport grain to the court by sea, overcame the supply difficulties of the 400-mile unmanned area of the Liaoxi Corridor, and ensured the logistics of the army.
At the end of the reply, Liu Yu left a message to Liu Bei, and agreed with him that he had "crossed the border and pursued the Yellow Turban Wusu tribe in Qingzhou at the right time to share the worries of the court."
Chapter completed!